{"id":13326,"date":"2011-07-16T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=13326"},"modified":"2020-01-13T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T20:43:10","slug":"iran-asking-citizens-to-vote-on-new-name-for-its-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=13326","title":{"rendered":"Iran asking citizens to vote on new name for its currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/irans-central-bank-launches-poll-on-changing-name-of-national-currency\/2011\/07\/16\/gIQAzKUhHI_story.html\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article in the Washington Post dated 16 July 2011<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbi.ir\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Bank of Iran<\/a> is taking a poll to gauge the public&#8217;s preferences for new names for the country\u2019s currency, including the current rial, as well as historic names such as toman, parsi, and derik. The bank is also asking how many zeros should be removed from the currency if and when the government approves redenomination, a proposal that has been bandied about for years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the Washington Post dated 16 July 2011, the Central Bank of Iran is taking a poll to gauge the public&#8217;s preferences for new names for the country\u2019s currency, including the current rial, as well as historic names such as toman, parsi, and derik. The bank<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=13326\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,337],"tags":[54],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-13326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-middle-east","category-new-note","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24704,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions\/24704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}